Recommended for you

The Game Awards Results

Check out the winners!

Dec 07, 2015

This year marked the second annual Game Awards. After a decade-long run with Spike, Geoff Keighley now hosts his own event, streaming online via YouTube, Twitch, and directly to Xbox, PlayStation, and Wii U. As with Spike Video Game Awards, The Game Awards are held the first week in December and it is still considered to be one of the highest honors in video games.

Here are the results in the order they were announced on Friday's event.

Prior to the show's actual start, Geoff Keighley announced that the winner of Best Family game: "Super Mario Maker."

Nominees included: "Disney Infinity 3.0," "Lego Dimensions," "Skylanders: Superchargers," and "Splatoon."

Best Fighting Game went to "Mortal Kombat X," also announced before the start of the show.

"Mortal Kombat X" beat down "Guilty Gear XRZ," "Rise of Incarnates," and "Rising Thunder."

Best Multiplayer Game: "Splatoon"

"Splatoon" beat: "Call of Duty: Black Ops III," "Rocket League," "Destiny: The Taken King," and "Halo 5: Guardians."

Best Mobile Game: "Lara Croft Go"

"Lara Croft Go" won despite fierce competition from: "Downwell," "Fallout Shelter," "Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate," and "Pac-Man 256."

E-Sports Team of the Year: Optic Gaming

Optic Gaming Won over: Team Solomid, SK Telecom T1, Fnatic, and Evil Geniuses.

Keighley also mentioned that Most Anticipated Game of the Year went to "No Man's Sky."

"No Man's Sky" beat out: "Horizon Zero Dawn," "Quantum Break," "The Last Guardian," and "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End."

Best Narrative: "Her Story"

"Her Story" beat: "Tales from the Borderlands," "Life is Strange," "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," and "Until Dawn."

Favorite Trending Gamer: Greg Miller

Greg Miller out-played: Total Biscuit, Markiplier, Pewdiepie, and Christopher "Montecristo" Mykles.

Best Indie Game: "Rocket League"

"Axiom Verge," "Her Story," "Undertale," "Rocket League," and "Ori and the Blind Forest."

Keighley announced that the award for Games for Imapact went to "Life is Strange."

Nominees included: "Cibele," "Her Story," "Sunset," and "Undertale."

Developer of the Year: CD Projekt Red

CD Projekt Red out performed: Bethesda Software, Nintendo, Kojima Productions and From Software

Best Art Direction: "Ori and the Blind Forest"

"Ori and the Blind Forest" won over beautiful games like: "Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain," "The Witcher 3," "Bloodborne," and "Batman Arkham Knight."

Best Action/Adventure Game: "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain." Keifer Sutherland accepted the award "on behalf of Hideo Kojima, who was told he was not allowed to be at the awards in lieu of this year's falling out with Konami.

"Metal Gear Solid V: TPP", "Ori and the Blind Forest," "Rise of the Tomb Raider," "Batman: Arkham Knight," and "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate."

"Metal Gear Solid V: TPP" also won Best Score/Soundtrack.

Best Performance: Viva Seifert for her work in "Her Story"

Viva Seifert talked her way to a victory over: Ashley Burch (Chloe Price "Life is Strange"), Doug Cockle (Geralt "The Witcher 3"), Mark Hamill (The Joker "Batman Arkham Knight"), and Camilla Ludington (Lara Croft "Rise of the Tomb Raider").

Game of the Year: "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt"

The Witcher 3 clinched a victory over: "Bloodborne," "Metal Gear Solid V: TPP," "Super Mario Maker," and "Fallout 4."

Industry Icon Award

Report this Content

This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.

Health and Wellness

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Grand Canyon University

1131

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash

The first two weeks of classes have come to an end and they have been anything BUT easy. It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Although this seems like the best solution, it is also the easy way out. Take it from the girl who took basically a whole week off from her life because she just could not handle everything that was being thrown at her. This caused her to feel extremely lonely and even more stressed out for being behind in classes that JUST began.

Keep Reading...Show less

self-pity

Entertainment

11 Things We Learned From Brooke Davis

"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?"

St. Thomas Aquinas College

595

"She was fiercely independent, Brooke Davis. Brilliant, and beautiful, and brave. In two years she had grown more than anyone I had ever known. Brooke Davis is going to change the world someday, and I'm not sure she even knows it." - Lucas Scott, An Unkindness of Ravens

Brooke Davis of the hit show One Tree Hill was the it girl - she had it all, or so we thought. She started out as a stuck-up, shallow, spoiled, head cheerleader who didn't have her life together. She slept around a lot and loved to party - sounds like your typical high school teenager right? Wrong. B. Davis had so much more to offer. Caring, loyal, and outspoken, she has taught us some valuable lessons throughout the 9 seasons that OTH was on the air:

Keep Reading...Show less

brooke davis

Relationships

11 Signs You Have An Honorary Roommate

Make yourself at home, why don't you?

Appalachian State University

2536

Rachel Zadeits

For some of us, coming to college was the first time we ever had to share a room. It was a big change, but a fun one. As you meet more and more people over the course of your college career, it seems to be a pattern that you will at some point have that one friend that doesn't live with you, but acts like they do. We call those people, "Honorary Roommates" and here are 11 signs you have one in your life.